Quotes About Violence

You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings

Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything," said Sheriff Red Jetty. "It can just ruin a day.

One by one, and two by two,He tossed them human hearts to chew.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind.

Actually, some of the tackles looked more like assassination attempts to me.

You take one step closer and I'll slit your throat, you mung-encrusted camel-fucker.

Rustin foresaw a terrible chain reaction: black violence, inflamed by militant black leadership, producing a white backlash that would destroy liberalism just when it was poised to produce real change.

El día que asestes un arma en dirección a otro hombre será como si ya le hubieras matado.

Kill a Montanan, you got to cut off their head, bury it where they can't find it.

serial killings were something else—something that happened only in America, like unemployment and homelessness and corruption—the kind of things that they showed you on the television news or that you read about in the international pages of Pravda.

Scattered about were nude, scalped, and beheaded bodies bristling with arrows. Brains had been scooped out, and penises severed and shoved in the victims' mouths. The evidence of torture was unmistakable. Bowels had been opened while the victims were still alive and live coals placed upon them, and a scorched corpse, chained between two wagons, slumped over a smoldering fire.

The Lakota warrior Iron Hawk later explained why he had pounded a trooper's head into jelly. "These white men wanted it, they called for it, and I let them have it."16

Global warming, police brutality, voter suppression, racism. In his hands, weighty considerations escaped the pull of gravity. Damn, what a show!

And taking seriously the historically shaped biblical portrayal of a violent God drives us to ask for ourselves, "Is this what God is like?

Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?

How many terrorist attacks have there been in the last fifty years? The last seventy-five, even?" "Not many," Callum agreed grudgingly.

the newly arrived Ivets being hunted down and killed. Beaten into the mud with makeshift clubs, or gored by baying sayce to the sound of cheers. If they looked through the window at an angle they would be able to see boats of all sizes sailing hurriedly out of the circular polyp harbours for the safety of the water. I hate Adamists, Lori said. Only Adamists could do this to one another. They do it because they don't know one another. They don't love, they can only lust and fear.

Urban violence is in decline for the first time in decades, Cal.

Our perception of the Silfen as gentle and kind is our own stupid, convenient illusion. We wanted to believe in elves. And how many human bodies lie out there under the snow because of that?

He was readying his energistic powers to deal with her bodyguards, who had now caught her up, when she did her level best to ram his testicles into his eye sockets via his intestinal tract.

His clinical interests center around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships.

Only a people trained to accept being ruled by a violent power structure can really question someone's right and need to forcefully defend herself against oppression.